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Madame du Chiron, the wife of the Head Clerk in the War-Office, came to see me.
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Madame du Chiron, the wife of the Head Clerk in the War-Office, came to see me.
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He will not want to meddle in the doctors 'professional business; and in all else he is to be paramount, -- being himself responsible to the War-Office.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various
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Her ill-health has withdrawn her from active nursing and administration; but she has probably done more towards the saving of life by working in connection with the War-Office in private than by her best-known deeds in her days of health.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various
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War-Office secrets, preposterously put on paper, and still more preposterously preserved, simply knocked the wind of reality out of the whole affair.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 Various
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Madame du Chiron, the wife of the Head Clerk in the War-Office, came to see me.
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To effect this removal two modes were indicated: to simply cause him to quit the War-Office Building, and notify the Treasury
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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Bull; some to the British War-Office; some to the newspapers; some to friends in England, imploring them to appeal to the United States Government at Washington, to interfere for humanity's sake.
Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany Nellie L. McClung 1918
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Here is the War-Office of the Territorial Army (which is distinct from the joint Austro-Hungarian army); here are the Premier's Palace, the
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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War-Office, another regiment should be quartered in Meryton.
Pride and Prejudice 1892
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